The Daily News, Opposite of Prophetic

The New York Daily News has a feature on it's website which allows you to see the headlines in 1973. Here is the link to the lead item, "Ceasefire A Special Report Vietnam's Lesson".

Money Quote:

But one sure fact arises amidst the confusion and the uncertainties: The U.S. has laid down its policeman's club, at least for this generation, and perhaps not even in the next generation will American GIs be shipped out to fight another man's brush fires.

Not only did we as a people not learn that lesson, some of the individual architects of the Vietnam War didn't learn either.